User talk:Katherine Bavage (WMUK)

First week!

Hi All - my first week in the Offices in Old Street as a new member of staff seems to be going OK! I've got the IT set up and running, and I'm due to meet up with The Land tomorrow to talk 2012 Fundraiser - exciting stuff :) - Bavage 16:08, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to the wiki! --Tango (talk) 16:06, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello! The Land (talk) 17:42, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Training the Trainers/February 2013 event

Hi,

I have posted a message for you after where you signed up at Training the Trainers/February 2013 event

Yaris678 (talk) 17:49, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

I have also started a discussion about the location of the February train the trainer course that you've signed up to. You might be interested in commenting - see Talk:Training the Trainers/February 2013 event. Thanks, Bazonka (talk) 21:47, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Newsletter piece on Liverpool meetup

Hi Katherine,

I could write a piece on the Liverpool meetup if you like. One of the things I would like to talk about is the spectrum of levels of experience there. The was one guy who had never edited, someone who had created her first article and then there was Rich Farmbrough, one of the few editors to have made more than 1 million edits.

Yaris678 (talk) 16:31, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Katherine,

Did you get the text I sent you? I used the "email this user" facility in Wikipedia.

Is that text suitable for the newsletter?

Yaris678 (talk) 09:58, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Booo I don't appear to have received it :( Can email my staff email address instead? katherine.bavage@wikimedia.org.uk Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 10:19, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Cascading protection

Hi Kat, I just wanted to query this. Not the protection itself, just the cascading bit. I wanted to make sure that you're aware that ticking that box means that anything transcluded on the page (eg any images or templates) will also be protected for as long as they appear on that page while the "cascading" option is enabled. Is that what you intended to do (if it is, I'll leave you alone)? Harry Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:39, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Yikes, well spotted - no I didn't, I want everyone to edit and reuse all the lovely pages and photos as much as possible, if not more. Good think I check work stuff at night? :/ Thanks so much for the heads up Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 21:42, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

To be fair, all of the images being used on that page are on Commons, so wouldn't had been affected by cascading protection anyway even if intended. -- KTC (talk) 23:33, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Volunteer and Trustee Security checklist

Hi Katherine. I've reverted [1] as it appears to add a page to a board-approved policy, which shouldn't happen without board approval... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:16, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Guys, I'm sure there is an intelligent way we can use the wiki for this sort of thing. e.g. A hat note that points to the version which has been approved by the board and says something like "subsequent changes represent suggested changes to the policy. These changes are part of community discussion. At some stage, these changes (or different changes) may be approved by the board." Yaris678 (talk) 09:15, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Just replied to Fae on water cooler to say it is draft, but not really intended as a policy, so I'll re-categorise... I agree, we need a better mechanism for being able to update policies when operational circumstances render them irrelevant/outdtated as they were last approved - this will probably happen fairly frequently with IT security policies and a changing and growing volunteer base. I would welcome someone writing up a process with matching templates and would use them faithfully! :) Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 10:18, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Separating out policy from procedure and checklists would be a good approach to take here. Policies need board approval to make changes to, which will naturally be a fairly slow and thoughtful process, while procedures and checklists can be updated as operational circumstances need. We've tried the hatnote approach that Yaris suggests before, but sadly it led to confusion as to what was the active version - that approach would work better if we had pending changes, but otherwise setting up a proposed revision e.g. like [2] is the better approach to take. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:46, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

+1 to pending changes. --Fæ (talk) 00:49, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Reply

Hello Katherine, I replied at User talk:Romaine. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 00:47, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Wiki migration notice

The hosting for this site will be migrated from the Foundation's datacenter to the Wikimedia UK's over the last week-end of September (28-29th September). It will not be possible to migrate non-public account information. This includes watch lists, account preferences, contact email, or current password for registered users. We will recreate 'stub-accounts' on the migrated site and will communicate to you your new password if you activate "Enable email from other users" in your user profile now! Want to know more? WMUK Wiki Migration Team (talk) 14:46, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Domain names

Hi Katherine, thanks for working on sorting out the contacts for the WMUK domain names. :-) They still seem to need a bit of work, though. Looking through the whois database, the current situation is as follows:

• Where I am the named contact and my WMUK email address is listed, and the registration name is still 'Wiki UK Limited', but the postal address is the office:
  • britainloveswikipedia.org
  • glamwiki.org
  • monmouthpedia.org
  • scotwiki.org
  • wicipediacymraeg.org
• Where I'm the named registrant (and apparently I'm trading under my name), but the postal address is the office:
  • qrpedia.org.uk
• Where I'm the named contact, and they are still registered to 'Wiki UK Limited':
  • wikimedia.ie
• Where the contact is Jon and the address is up to date, but they are still registered to 'Wiki UK Limited':
  • qrpedia.net
• Where no contact is specified, and they are still registered to 'Wiki UK Limited' (but are otherwise up to date):
  • wikiconferences.org.uk
  • wikimedia.co.uk
  • wikimedia.org.uk
  • wikilovesmonuments.co.uk
  • wikilovesmonuments.org.uk

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help sort these out. Also, as a BTW, I'd recommend using a dedicated email address for domain registrations that redirects to a couple of people rather than using Jon's address (particularly to avoid issues during vacations, but also to make sure that the people that are managing the domains get the relevant emails directly) - perhaps something like domains@, or perhaps the tech mailing list could be used for this? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:45, 4 September 2013 (UTC)